3A - Cultural Diversity in Parenting Universal goals of parenting Ensuring the physical survival health of the child Providing an environment for

Cultural Diversity in Parenting Universal goals of parenting  Ensuring the physical survival & health of the child  Providing an environment for successful progression through the developmental stages into adulthood  Teaching/modeling normative cultural & societal values However…  How these goals are accomplished is not necessarily universal Ethnic/racial variations  Historically considered due to deficiencies  Now viewed as legitimate adaptations to different contexts Culture  Cultural group  A collective of individuals who share common beliefs, practices, ideals, values, traditions & behaviors  Ethnic group  Cultural group that traces its origins to a particular area, region or country  Racial group  Categorization of humans into populations on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics (skin color, cranial/facial features, hair texture) Cultural influence on parenting  Organization of everyday life  Physical & social settings  Parenting practices  Routines of care & training  Parental ethnotheories  Beliefs about children, families and themselves that are brought to interactions with children Physical and Social Settings  Influences what we have ethnocentrically believed is optimal development  For example, sleep behavior